
By the same author as Grand Line 3.5
21st Aug 2013, 9:02 PM
Well, one time I was playing an orc barbarian berserker. Charisma total negative 7. Int score 4. Will save 0. Anyway, we were at this super fancy dinner with a King who we REALLY needed to get on our side. Problem was, while the other party members were making an effort to eat properly with all the right utensils (and failing a bit), I had picked up the soup bowl to pour the contents down my throat, picked the chicken up whole barehanded, and stuck the forks in my hair. The king got really angry and demanded an explanation, looking ready to clap us all in irons for the offense. |
24th Aug 2013, 8:51 AM
In the vein of some of GM's actions in this comic, but utterly unintentional. |
30th Nov 2013, 8:46 AM
It means shit, he shit his pants, badly. |
2nd May 2016, 12:56 AM
Ah. I thought it was a typo of 'crap'. Turns out it was another word for it. |
29th Dec 2013, 2:21 AM
Uncouth and Ugly Alien Force User in a Star Wars campaign, at a fancy party, trying to cover for the rest of the party who is robbing the place, panics when the others and some guards come blasting out of the kitchens, he tells the Hutt Diplomat that the guards are assassins trying to kill her (yes, the Hutt was a female at the time), and he and his allies were there to protect her from them. He rolled a nat 20, and voila, she believes him and calls her own lackeys to help fight the actual guards of the palace. He then, like an idiot, lets it slip who holds the loan on their ship, hoping to capitalize on her good favor to help them get out of it, which he lucks into a 19 and a borderline success, so she says she'll put in a good word for them (it did shave 1000 credits off their initial debt, then added 7000 because of the collateral damage at the party, and the face of the group failing the bluff check with the Houk who they owed the loan to... plus... because of something the force user said, they now had been assigned to escort and protect the Hutt on her journey). |
29th Dec 2013, 2:30 AM
Oh, same campaign, the Pilot (who also had charisma as a dump stat) actually bluffed the Houk into believing a derelict ship they found was worth 10x its actual value, thinking they'd use it to pay off their debt. Problem came up that 1) they could only bluff their way into 25% of the sell price, with the Houk eating the cost of towing, repairs, and black market selling it, 2) The Houk towed it and wouldn't give them their cut minus their debt to him, until after the sale... 3) Just cause they made him believe it was worth 10x the value, doesn't mean he could sell it for that much. Sufficed to say, they never got the debt expunged and the profit... the irony, had they not bluffed, the derelict was worth enough that, 25% of the sell of it, would have covered their debt, and they'd still have gotten 3-10% of the sell price in net profit. |
30th Dec 2013, 11:13 PM
...okay. |
1st Jan 2014, 10:44 PM
Not me, nor do I have a clue who it is (or if it's actually a real story), but this is the first thing that comes to mind when I think of bluff. |
2nd Nov 2015, 11:58 AM"Bear Boo"
Puts on a disguise to look like human guys, but you're not a man you're a bear, Boo! |
31st Mar 2014, 6:26 AM"star wars"
I was in a D6 star wars campaign as a bounty hunter. My friend Shawn was playing a retired Imperial Captain. Will had a Jawa Jedi. |
6th Apr 2016, 6:07 PM"And thus a running gag is born"
One of my group's longest standing jokes began when one of our players, the guy who M'lady'd his way through any in-character interaction, tried his hand at a bluff but the GM called for specifically what was said. We were trying to extract information and our would-be informant had been lying to us pretty obviously the whole time but wouldn't crack. |
11th Mar 2017, 5:21 PM
This was less about my character not seeming plausible as I had a decent bluff but due to a terrible roll earlier I believed and important holy symbol our group needed to deliver was the symbol of Barney the dinosaur, and then when the queen arrived with the rest of my group (who I was separated from at the time) I get upset with her calling it differently and roll a bluff check and got a 7 but then the DM rolled a 1 and had me convinced the queen she lived her whole life in the same town as the symbol of Barney the dinosaur. |
11th Mar 2017, 5:22 PM
This was less about my character not seeming plausible as I had a decent bluff but due to a terrible roll earlier I believed and important holy symbol our group needed to deliver was the symbol of Barney the dinosaur, and then when the queen arrived with the rest of my group (who I was separated from at the time) I get upset with her calling it differently and roll a bluff check and got a 7 but then the DM rolled a 1 and had me convinced the queen she lived her whole life in the same town as the symbol of Barney the dinosaur. |
DragonTrainer
17th Aug 2013, 8:50 PM
Bluff checks are usually done by the face of the party or at the very least, the one with the highest charisma. Share a story about a successful bluff check by the most unlikely of player characters.
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